Aliquot by John Clegg Leonard Cohen Drawing on his Anglo-Indonesian heritage

Drawing on his Anglo-Indonesian heritage

survives in notebook drafts to give a clear sense of its shape

James Kirkup

writing as parents as well as in relation to their own parents

How can we live together

Aliquot by John Clegg Leonard Cohen Drawing on his Anglo-Indonesian heritageThe chemist with a sample analyses an aliquot of that sample, a part of a part of a larger whole. The title of John Cleggs new collection speaks to the poems sense of being parts of larger wholes, themselves parts of a larger whole The scientific knowledge and the sometimes old fashioned diction that abound in these poems are both part of worlds of reference in which sequencing (narrative, historical, scientific) is crucial and revelatory, as in the